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The “laws of physics” are mathematical models (abstractions) created by humans. And those abstractions are embedded in the physical world (our brains, written t
by mbrodersen 5y ago
The “laws of physics” are mathematical models (abstractions) created by humans. And those abstractions are embedded in the physical world (our brains, written text, magnetic disks etc.)
- davidivadavid 5y agoRight, that's also roughly what I default to (because Platonism seems to have more unnecessary complexity/hypotheses). The actual nature/ontology of abstractions isn't entirely (or at all) solved by that (e.g. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/).